Erica calycina flowers

The flowers of Erica calycina nod from velvety pedicels, mostly in stem-tip threes, arranged in plume-like racemes or narrow panicles. The bracteoles on the pedicels are near the leaf-shaped calyces, corolla-coloured as the calyces that overlap in two opposite pairs. The sepals are as long as the corolla tube and glossy.

The bell-shaped corollas are hairless, sometimes slightly sticky with their blunt-tipped lobes curved outwards, almost as long as the corolla tubes. Flower colour is white or pale pink to purple and the corollas up to 4 mm long.

The eight stamens in each bisexual flower end in dark anthers, exposed in the mouth of the corolla tube. The anthers have large, toothed crests at their lower ends. The style protrudes some distance from the midst of the anthers, the often-brown stigma at its tip small and rounded (Manning and Helme, 2024; Baker and Oliver, 1967; iNaturalist).